Dell Server Firmware Updater Bootable ISO
You want to update the firmware but you don’t run Windows. Download it from here. http://www.dell.com/Support/Article/us/en/04/SLN296511
Read MoreHow to Enable SSH in VMware ESXi Vsphere Client
Date April 4, 2016 Author By kadmin Category VMware
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Read MoreHow to Tag Disk as SSD in VMware ESXi 5.5 and 6.0
Date November 9, 2015 Author By kadmin Category VMware
Problem: You installed an SSD drive in your ESXi host and it shows up as Non-SSD in the configuration pane. Solution: Enable SSH Use SSH to tag the disk as SSD run this command to get your disk ID esxcli storage nmp device list then use your disk ID in the following 2 commands esxcli […]
Read MoreDetermine Windows Channel (Retail or OEM or Volume)
Date October 8, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows Server 2003
Issue: You want to P2V a Windows machine but you want to avoid activation issues. With OEM and retail licenses the P2V conversion will result in reactivating the Windows installation because of the new virtual hardware. Since the virtual hardware does not comply to the OEM license, the activation will fail. Solution: 1 – Make […]
Read MoreVMware Backup – File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore
Date July 8, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware
Scenario: Backing up VMware ESXi virtual machines. In this case, using Acronis VMprotect 7. This issue is also seen with other backup software. Problem: Backup job fails with this error message: Message: Awaiting task ‘CreateSnapshot’ has failed. Reason: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore ‘. ——————–‘. Full error Log: Task ‘fileserver […]
Read MoreHow To Speed up VMware Converter
Date May 21, 2012 Author By kadmin Category VMware
Original Post is here. Re-posted here for my own convenience. Turning off SSL inscreased my transfer speed from 4Mbps to 22 Mbps. ——————————————————————————————– If you haven’t checked out VMware Converter 5 yet, you should. There are a lot of really nice enhancements, the two big ones being vSphere 5 support and automatic partition alignment (which […]
Read MoreNTP Servers for North America
Date November 26, 2011 Author By kadmin Category VMware
When setting up a VMware ESXi server it helps to configure the NTP server so the server will keep the correct time and pass it on to the virtual machines. time-c.nist.gov 0.us.pool.ntp.org 1.us.pool.ntp.org 2.us.pool.ntp.org 3.us.pool.ntp.org
Read MoreThe IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter.
Date May 29, 2011 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
This is common if you migrate a virtual machine to a new VMware host and it automatically reconfigured the hardware with a new NIC. You can safely click NO and everything will work but it is annoying that the message appears every time you open your network settings. Here is how to remove the old […]
Read MoreVMware Converter – Beware of OEM versions of Windows
Date October 5, 2009 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows Server 2003
I recently decided to virtualize my dying Exchange 2003 server to give it new life on new hardware. I’ve had bad luck running the VMware Converter from within Windows (hot clone) on a domain controller in the past. I’ve also performed a hot cone with no issues at all so it is really a crapshoot […]
Read More0xc000035a Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this cpu is not compatible with 64-bit mode.
Date September 24, 2009 Author By kadmin Category VMware, Windows Server 2008
I installed VMware ESXi 4.0 on my new Dell Poweredge R710 server. I then created a Windows 2008 Server virtual machine and proceed to boot from the installation DVD to install Windows. I was quickly greeted with this error: Status: 0xc000035a Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this cpu is not compatible with […]
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